Rupert the Devil — Jeanne Montague

1642 - England is aflame with Civil War. Venetia Denby meets Rupert of the Rhine, nephew of King Charles I, and becomes infatuated with him. She betrays the man she was about to marry and alienates her family when Rupert takes her as his mistress. Helplessly she watches him become embittered by the dissensions between the courtiers and the Generals which tear the Royalist party to pieces, and his struggles against the jealous, unscrupulous Lord George Goring.